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2019 UTME: JAMB Suspends UNIBEN CBT Centres, Others

The Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has suspended the University of
Benin ICT Computer Based Test (CBT) centre and eight others from partaking in
this year’s unified tertiary matriculation examination registration.

The
examination board disclosed this in a bulletin issued from the office of the
registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede on Monday, January 28, 2019.

The board
also revealed it has registered 869, 709 candidates for the 2019 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which is scheduled to hold in March.

The board stated that the centres were suspended for breaching the code governing the 2019 registration exercise by charging higher than the stipulated figure directed by the Federal Government.

The Bulletin
reads in part; “Before commencing the 2019 UTME and Direct Entry registration
exercise, a meeting with all CBT operators was convened in Lagos State, where
the guidelines on the exercise were deliberated upon and laid out strictly for
all to adhere to. The meeting had resolved that the cost of registration should
not exceed N700.

“Unfortunately,
findings from the board’s monitoring exercise revealed that some centres were
charging higher than the stipulated figure directed by the Federal Government
and equally agreed at during the Lagos meeting.”